Recruitment of 3000 Contract Teachers:

Angry Candidates Storm MINEDUB Demanding Adjustments

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaoundé

Some disgruntled primary school teachers whose names did not appear in the list of some 3000 primary school teachers recently recruited into the public service by the Ministry of Basic Education have continued a protest action launched to demand justice and adjustment on the recruitment criteria.

              

Striking applicants sitting in front of the Minedub in Yaounde

  The angry candidates have continue lying on the road in front of the Ministry, carried placards with varied messages all demanding justice for what they qualify as bias procedure and non-respect of the recruitment criteria that was laid down by the Minister.

                They teachers have denounced irregularities that surrounded the said recruitment process and castigated the Minister, Prof. Laurent Serge Etoundi, for not respecting the seniority criteria he set in place prior to the exercise for candidates with older diplomas.                                                                                They explained that most of those recruited are candidates with 2018 diplomas whereas those with 2010 certificates are left out.

                The recruitment involves some 3000 contract teachers who are to be absorbed into the public service and deployed to the ten regions ahead of the 2020/2021 academic year to solve the problem of shortage of teachers.

                Prof. Etoundi Ngoa had on Monday 5 May 2020 in a meeting with members of the Central Recruitment Commission organised to present the selection criteria, promised that the process would be fair and transparent with priority given to older candidates and those whose certificates were obtained much earlier.

                "We will give priority to those who have been trained for years and who have not been able to get a job,” he earlier promised.

                The recruitment done with support from the World Bank is aimed at correcting the shortage of teachers found in rural areas nationwide. Current pupil-teacher statistics in Cameroon puts a teacher to 51 pupils as opposed to the UNESCO ratio of one teacher for 40 pupils.